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Summary of Case: Stephen M. Garrity was ordained a priest of the Jesuits’ Maryland Province in 1970. He was assigned to high schools in Washington DC, Philadelphia PA, Baltimore MD and Scranton PA. He served also as the Province’s vocations director, as director and rector of a Faulkner MD retreat house and as a college chaplain and parish pastor in Durham NC. Garrity was placed on leave in 2007 after admitting to having had “inappropriate sexual contact” with five young adults, ages 18-23, during his time in Baltimore and Philadelphia in the 1970s and 1980s. In 2012 he was accused of having molested a male high school student in in the 1970s in Philadelphia. Garrity is last known to have been living in a Jesuit community in PA.
Ordained: 1970
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